My first rig project :D

My Pc started occassionally having to double boot (shutting down a few seconds after power on), it stopped it for a while but started again recently.
Thinking I should take another look at cpu settings, which I hadn't done for six months, I somehow managed to put cpu voltage to 1.500 (way too high, it should around 1.35?)
Anyway got the BSOD twice, before making what I think are ok adjustments and I just wanted to check as I'm not that familiar with this side of things.

In asus pz68 board bios with a i5 25k;
By all cores; 45
Cpu voltage; 1.224
Dram; 1.671

The bottom two figures are what I wanted to check, there set in 'auto' mode, do these look correct?

I switched some other settings in the bios as was recommended by a highly liked yuotube video that was with the same board and chip.

Stress test with prime95 for and hour and a half and top temp. I got was 96deg. I was checking with core temp too, but most of the stats in these aren't very useful cos I don't understand!

Oh and it seems that the 'double boot' problem is fixed.
 
Your poor grammar makes things a little bit harder to understand but i'll give it a go.

1) That is a lot of RAM voltage. Almost all the Ripjaws stuff I've seen is meant to run at 1.5V.

2) All chips will overclock differently. The multiplier that your 2500k can do on that voltage may not be the same as what other people are able to do.

3) Any overclocks you make on the CPU frequency will make little difference to the onboard GPU performance. If you do not fully understand what you are doing then please just set it to auto - the 2500k will have more performance at stock settings than you will ever use without a dedicated graphics card. Remember that one wrong setting can see things end very badly very quickly.

4) 96 degrees is HOT. How many fans are blowing in and blowing out of the case? More air coming out of the case than going into the case will not help to keep temperatures down. Also, the huge mess of cables at the bottom of the case like in previous pictures will impede airflow through the case.
 
thanks for your reply and sorry if you found it difficult to understand my grammar.

im aware that o/c'ing will make little or no difference to the onboard gfx. i'll be purchasing a dedicated card soon tho and the extra hertz will then be coming in handy. also i spent the extra cash on the 25k and a decent cooler specifically so i could learn about and overclock my system.

i didnt know about the fans; when i get home i'll check this out, and no doubt I'll be switching at least one around (there's 5 in total).

following what you've noticed about the ram voltage, I'll set the bios to the back to the auto o/c facility. please note; this ram voltage was set automatically and not by me, presumably based on what I'd set the multiplier too.

also 95 degrees was the top temperature of one core whilst being stress tested by prime 95.

thanks for taking a look and ill see what i can about those cables. the bloody cables were actually the most testing part of building it!
 
Mate, not bad for your first build.

My advice;

1. There is a cable showing that sits just above your PSU fan. I think it may be the front USB header. I recommend you find a way to ensure it doesn't drop into your PSU fan
2. Where is your gcard? I may have missed it
3. As someone else has said, look in this thread Case gallery and get some tips on cable management
 
Thanks!

Good spot of that cable, it is still there at the moment and I will fix it soon.

You didn't miss the gcard, there's not one even there right now. A new card and ssd are what I'm going to put in next month, and Im hoping this will make it a worthy gaming setup.

Yup, the cables need sorting too. I took a look at the gallery and there's some very neat setups. There's so much cable in there I barely knew what to do with it. Half of it is shut away behind the motherboard and side panel. - I can only imagine this is where the cables have gone to in some of the photos, some of them I cant see any cables at all :s
 
after feedback I got, I made some adjustments in the bios.

multiplier now 38.
ram 1.35 volts.
idel temps are maxing at 28deg.

also there's a setting in there called 'cpu capacity'. it was set at 130%. Ive put it down to 100% to be safe.

got a long free weekend ahead, so ill be tinkering a bit more and be posting some more questions i imagine.
 
Nice build, think you should spend some time on cable management. I know the Z9 has some kind of management but can't see it being any better than the Z11 I just handed back.
 
Looks good, similar to my spec Zalman Z9 :).

If i were you I'd move that fan you have mounted on the bottom of the case and put it to use with the H60 on creating a push pull system.

Will keep an eye on this :)
 
nice1, comments / advice much appreciated!

ended up spending long weekend back at my rents, so my quality time with my pc is still on the 'to do' list (im actually writing this from work :D )

more to follow...
 
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This how it looks now.
Fan at the bottom is pushing air in mostly. Doesn't seem like I can fix this one to the top as the black fan header is in the way.
Blue fan at top is pushing out. Blue fan bottom right is pushing air out also (I should switch these around?)
There's a cable that hovers above the PS. Im a bit confused as to what this is. Its got two sockets at the end of it; one read HD audio, the other AC'97. It doesn't seem to do anything? (when unlplugged the sound still works)
Removing the black cable for extra USB ports, I dont use them.
Cabling at the bottom is a bit of a mess
 
Cabling at the bottom of your case will be impeding the airflow from the bottom fan,
Mount your HDD the other way round and route your SATA power and data behind the motherboard tray.

The HD Audio/AC'97 is for your front panel headphone and microphone jacks; if these are unused you can unplug it provided you have somewhere to hide the cable.
 
After moving fan to the top left, with the watercooler.

Cpu is x44. Max temp I got on testing is 79deg.

Adding one of these soon; Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) [MZ-7PC128D/EU]

and also a reasonable gfx card
 
Robbiec053 said:
Cabling at the bottom of your case will be impeding the airflow from the bottom fan,
Mount your HDD the other way round and route your SATA power and data behind the motherboard tray.

The HD Audio/AC'97 is for your front panel headphone and microphone jacks; if these are unused you can unplug it provided you have somewhere to hide the cable.
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thank you that's useful.
i did move the fan from the bottom, attached it to the waterfan
 
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